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Rule 502 Update

Posted on November 04, 2008
Just a reminder that Rule 502 of the Federal Rule of Evidence is effective Dec. 1, 2008.The rule is intended to reduce the costs of document review.

Voting in Dallas County

Posted on November 03, 2008
Tuesday's the Big Day!To keep a watch on the Dallas County voting results visit:http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/TX/Dallas/9051/11681/en/summary.htmlView results, precincts reports, voter turnout numbers, etc.

Tracking Vote Reports on Twitter

Posted on November 03, 2008
Twitter Vote Report is an all-volunteer network of software developers, designers, and other collaborators who have teamed up to help track voting problems on Election Day.Using Twitter Vote Report, voters will be able to share their experiences and resources with one another (e...

Daylight Savings Time Ends This Weekend

Posted on October 28, 2008
Daylight Savings Time ends this year at 2:00 a.m. Sunday, November 2, 2008. For a short history and look ahead for dates up to 2015, NASA has a good page.

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Financial Crisis' Pathfinders

Posted on October 27, 2008
This was on the BusLib-Listserv last week and thought this might be helpful to everyone. Resources for Financial Crisis: 1. Folger Libraryhttp://library.umaine.edu/social/crisisreports.htm2. San Diego Public Library has a "Hot Topics" segment on the crisis: www...

AALL: 21st Century Right to Know Project

Posted on October 27, 2008
The 21st Century Right to Know project, a collaborative effort of OMB Watch, AALL and more than 100 groups and individuals, is calling for group and individual endorsements of its draft recommendations to improve federal government transparency. AALL and SCALL have signed on, and I encourage you to sign on as an individual...

Elections

Posted on October 24, 2008
A few web sites for election locations:Denton County Elections http://elections.dentoncounty.com/go.asp?Dept=82&Link=1013Dallas County Elections http://www.dalcoelections.org/Collin County Elections http://www.co.collin.tx.us/elections/election_information/index...

Energy saving tips

Posted on October 22, 2008
Google has put together a quick check sheet of energy saving tips around the house. When you check off each item or put in the number of replacements, it calculates your energy savings.http://www.google.com/hauntedhouse08/index.html

Review of first Google phone

Posted on October 16, 2008
David Pogue reviews the first Google phone, the G1, made by HTC and carried by T-Mobile. His review is three part: the Android software, the phone itself, and the T-Mobile G3 network.State of the ArtA Look at Google?s First PhoneNew York Times OnlineBy DAVID POGUEPublished: October 16, 2008The Google phone is real, and it?s finally here...

Retail sales drop

Posted on October 15, 2008
Article from the New York Times:Retail Sales Fall 1.2% in SeptemberBy MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUMPublished: October 15, 2008Retail sales fell sharply in September as consumers shunned department stores, auto showrooms and shopping malls, ratcheting back spending for a third consecutive month...

PatentSurf

Posted on October 09, 2008
Patent Surf (http://www.patentsurf.net/) identifies itself as a discovery engine of U.S. Patents.What does it do?According to their web site, "This site empowers you to surf patents made available by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. As a starting point, please type a natural description of what you are interested in...

Banks cut rates

Posted on October 08, 2008
Seen in the news -Fed, ECB, Central Banks Cut Rates in Coordinated Move (Update5)By Scott LanmanOct. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and four other central banks lowered interest rates in an unprecedented coordinated effort to ease the economic effects of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression...

During This Time of Importance...Factcheck

Posted on October 07, 2008
During this time of changes in our economy, leadership, etc. don't forget to use Factcheck to locate information on a variety of political issues:www.factcheck.org

RSS Feeds Have Arrived For Findlaw Data

Posted on October 07, 2008
Findlaw has created RSS Feeds for a number of content, including my favorite, Greedy Associates!To find your RSS Feed for your favorite topic, click here http://findlaw.com/RSS-index/.Categories include:NewsFeaturesCase SummariesGreedy Associates

Emergency Economic Stabilization Bill of 2008

Posted on October 07, 2008
To find the most recent copy of the EMERGENCY ECONOMIC STABILIZATION Bill: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c110:1:./temp/~c110x9Uvhn::HR 1424

Taylor & Francis Acquires Haworth Press

Posted on October 06, 2008
"Taylor & Francis Group recently acquired the publishing portfolio of Haworth Press. I am writing to give you advance notification of our schedule for migrating the ejournals from www.haworthpress.com to www.informaworld.com to allow for a smooth platform transition for you and your users...

Royalty Rates Unchanged

Posted on October 03, 2008
We can still purchase 99 cent music!October 2, 2008 1:02 PM PDTRoyalty rate doesn't change for Apple, music retailersPosted by Greg SandovalThe Copyright Royalty Board on Thursday froze the rate that digital-music stores such as iTunes and RealNetworks' Rhapsody must pay music publishers...

Friday Fluff

Posted on October 03, 2008
One of our librarians passed on this news story about Flexible Fred, and how this skeleton is being banished from the Delaware (Ohio) County Law Library after someone said Fred scared her child.Flexible Fred is deadLaw library's skeleton can't go near the windows after complaints from a momThursday, October 2, 2008 3:19 AMBy Jane HawesFOR THE COLUMBUS DISPATCHDELAWARE, Ohio -- This summer, he was the baseball-cap-wearing pawn in a battle between Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds fans...

Trenton library plans to close all its branches

Posted on September 25, 2008
http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/currentnews/newsarchive/2008/september2008/trentonbranchcrisis.cfmA potential citywide budget deficit of as much as $28 million has led the Trenton (N.J.) Public Library to develop plans to close all four of its neighborhood branches...

Novel on data mining - could this happen?

Posted on September 24, 2008
If you like whodunits, the newest Jeffrey Deaver novel, The Broken Window, about Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs will combine whodunit with data mining ... envision it as a "what if public records were on steroids" story that will make the privacy folks hyperventilate...

Google Phone is Here

Posted on September 23, 2008
Today, Google showed off its new phone! Competitors: iPhone and Blackberry.Difference: price ($179) and separate keyboardAvailable on Oct. 22nd

The Money Crisis

Posted on September 23, 2008
CNN Money has a whole section devoted to stories on the developing fiscal crisis.http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/crisiswallstreet/2008/index.htmland from the SEC:"Testimony Concerning Turmoil in U.S. Credit Markets: Recent Actions Regarding Government Sponsored Entities, Investment Banks and Other Financial Institutions"by Chairman Christopher CoxU...

Barefoot Sanders Died Sunday

Posted on September 22, 2008
From today's Texas Lawyer's Daily News:Barefoot Sanders, who served as a judge for the Northern District of Texas in Dallas from 1979 until his retirement at the end of 2006, died Sunday Sept. 21 at his Dallas home at the age of 83.To read his Memoriam:http://www...

Loss of Federal Government Electronic Information

Posted on September 18, 2008
This might be of interest to law librarians!AALL?s Washington Blawg has some interesting information on Saturday?s New York Times article on the loss of federal online information.http://aallwash.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/timely-article-highlights-the-loss-of-federal-electronic-government-information/This article was also mentioned in September's AALL E-Newsletter.

Oh No...Another E-Reader!

Posted on September 10, 2008
Move over Kindle!In a recent article from the NY Times, there is a new e-reader on the way!This e-reader is specifically for newspapers named the Plastic Logic Reader which can store hundreds of documents and updated via Wi-Fi.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/technology/08ink...

Is it true or not?

Posted on September 09, 2008
We all receive the breathless emails from well-meaning friends/family/co-workers that announce something that is almost plausible, or sounds like it could be true. Where do you go to verify whether or not that rumor making the rounds is true?One good site is Snopes...

Free Seminar on How to Use Linkedin

Posted on September 08, 2008
Donna Fryer, Managing Director ofGlobal Information Research & Retrieval, LLC, is giving a free seminar on how to use Linkedin on Tuesday, Sept. 16th at 12 p.m. EST (11 a.m. CST).Space is limited.Reserve your FREE Webinar seat now at: https://www2...

Being Wired or Being Tired

Posted on September 02, 2008
Being Wired or Being Tired: 10 Ways to Cope with Information OverloadSarah Houghton-Jan explores different strategies for managing and coping with various types of informational overload.AriadneIssue 56 July 2008Sarah Houghton-Jan of Librarian in Black blog fame, wrote an article on information overload, pointing out that people started complaining about overload after the invention of the printing press...

New Search Engine to Locate Firms

Posted on September 02, 2008
From the recent Law Librarian News & Excited Utterances"An Australian KM manager has created the search engine, "Fee Fie Foe Firm". This is an engine that uses Google search technology to create a number of law firm directories by jurisdiction. The site allows one to find law firms by practice area, geographical location etc...

For Fun....Free orders of Chick-n-Strips in Texas

Posted on August 28, 2008
From the Dallas Business JournalChick-fil-A Inc., which has more than 55 North Texas stores, will hand out free three-piece orders of Chick-n-Strips to customers wearing their favorite football team?s attire or logo on Labor Day, Sept. 1.Read the full story at http://www...

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